-Caveat Lector- >Published Wednesday, January 10, 2001, in the Miami Herald > >Carter: Fla. voting too flawed >Former president `embarrassed' >BY MARK SILVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Paraguay yes, Florida no. > >Former President Jimmy Carter, who has monitored dozens of elections in >troubled spots around the world, says he would not assist a foreign >nation that had election procedures as flawed as Florida's. > >``I was really taken aback and embarrassed by what happened in Florida,'' >Carter said in an interview aired Tuesday on National Public Radio. ``If >we were invited to go into a foreign country to monitor the election, and >they had similar election standards and procedures, we would refuse to >participate at all.'' > >The Carter Center, with its mission of ``waging peace,'' has observed 30 >elections in 20 countries. It watched six last year -- village voting in >China and Nicaragua and elections in Venezuela, Mexico, Peru and the >Dominican Republic -- as part of its Atlanta-based ``Democracy Program.'' > >The center says it focuses on ``emerging democracies,'' nations holding >elections after civil wars or dictators, or ``countries in danger of >backsliding from democracy.'' > >Carter monitored the 1999 referendum that led to East Timor's >independence from Indonesia after issuing weekly reports on violence and >intimidation by military opponents. Carter has monitored voting in >Mozambique, Ghana, Zambia, Haiti, Panama and Paraguay and for the >Cherokee Nation. > >But a built-in expectation of error in Florida's voting practices serves >as a warning flag. > >``I could not believe that in Florida the error rate was expected to be >four or five percent, which is an enormous amount of votes, many of >which, of course as you know, were not counted,'' Carter told Bob >Edwards, host of NPR's Morning Edition, who playfully asked Carter if he >might monitor Florida's next vote. > >``I think and hope, but I don't expect, that the United States would now >consider how to make our voting procedures less fraught with predictable >error,'' Carter said. ``I think now we just put that unfortunate election >procedure in historical terms and look to the future.'' <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
